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BUTTON BOOT. No. 278,081. Patented May 22,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JAMES H. BEMIS, OF KEENE, N. H., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF AND FRANKLIN HARRINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTONJ-BOOT.

SPEGIFICATION fOrming part of Letters Patent No. 278,081, dated May 22, 1883.

Application filed March 19, 1883.

and useful Improvement inButton-Boots; and

I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side view of a boot provided with my invention, and Fig.2 is a side view of the buttoning-chain.

The nature of the invention I have endeavored to define in the claims hereinafter presented. I

The boot is of the ordinary kind, except that in having button-holes to engage with the buttons it has an auxiliary set of buttons, and to engage with the main and auxiliary sets of buttons it has a chain ot'peculiar construction-that is, each of whose links that is to engage with a button is bowed or arched, so as to receive and extend partly around the eye or fastening of such button. Furthermore,

the links to engage with one set of buttons are arched.or bowed in directions opposite to those which engage with the other set of buttons.

In the drawings, A denotes a boot having to the flaps of its leg-opening two sets of buttons, those of one set being marked a and those of the other being marked 1), and they being arranged in manner as represented. With these buttons the buttoning-chain B is employed, it being attached at its lower end to the lower button of the upper set, a aa,&c. From this button it goes partly around the lower button of the set b b b, &c., and thence from a button of one set to one of the next in the order, in a zigzag course, as represented. The several links 0 ot' the chain have eyes at their ends for connecting them together, each link being apiece of wire, which, next its lower eye, is bowed or arched, as shown at d, in order (No model.)

| for it to receive and extend partly around the eye of a button. This arching or bending of the link near its lower eye serves to so engage it with the button as to prevent such link from accidentally slipping ofi' the button. The rest, or part e of the link, when the chain is buttoned, usually is straight or in line, or about so, with the two buttons between which it may be. Whenthe chain is engaged and arranged with the two sets of buttons in manner as represented in Fig. 1, it, with them, serves to close the leg-opening of the side of the boot, and,

besides having an appliance easily and quickly manipulated and very durable, it presents advantages in an aesthetic point of view.

I make no claim to a single wire formed into a zigzag spring and provided with loops and eyes and arranged within the flap of a shoe,

and to operate with hooks or buttons, as representedin the United States Patent No. 195,7 70, as I have a chain of links jointed together and each arched or bowed, as described, such chain being applied to two sets of buttons projecting from the outer surface of the flap and part adjacent thereto, as shown.

I claim- 1. The boot-buttoning chain, substantially as described, having each of its buttoning-links jointed to the nextlink or links, and arched or bowed in manner essentially as set forth.

2. The button-boot having the flaps of its leg-opening provided with the'two sets of buttons, arranged on them as set forth, and also with a buttoning-chain, substantially as described, having each of its buttoning-links jointed to the next link or links. and bowed or arched to operate with the buttons in manner essentially as represented.

JAMES HERVEY BEMIS.

Witnesses R. H. PORTER, W. R. PORTER. 

